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Here’s why the new Texas school curriculum is so very, very bad

Last week I spent a day in Austin, Texas, to testify for the second time against the new (and newly named) “Bluebonnet Learning K-5 Reading Language Arts” curriculum. Despite significant opposition, the Bible-infused curriculum was approved, which should be unsurprising...

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FAITH SHAPERS: Teaching positive behaviors

Welcome back from our trip to Bizarro World. Hopefully our tongue-in-cheek discussion of Bizarro parenting helped us all to see the unintended consequences of many parenting decisions. Now I’d like for us to return our focus to building virtues. Don’t…

OUT LOUD

 “I’ve just taken it in stride. In some cases, being a person of my faith will sometimes even open a door. Other times it will shut a door. You just deal with it.” Keith Ellison The congressman from Minnesota was…

SECOND OPINION: Truly valuing freedom of conscience

Moderate Baptists have distinguished themselves from their more conservative and fundamentalist brothers and sisters for a generation through their elevation of freedom of conscience to a near-absolute good. While the conservatives who came to dominate the Southern Baptist Convention increasingly…

HERITAGE: Under the shade trees

The venerable Dover Baptist Church is located in the countryside of Goochland just off picturesque Highway 6 (which in the City of Richmond is better known as Patterson Avenue) and under the shade trees there has been an abundance of…

BC to open newest residence hall in August

BLUEFIELD — Bluefield College will open the doors of East River Hall, its first new residence hall in more than 30 years, with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Aug. 7 at 11:30 a.m. For the past 10 months,…

VIRGINIA BRIEFS

Virginia Baptists log hours in Louisiana. Since October 2007, more than 1,300 Virginia Baptist volunteers have helped with rebuilding efforts in and around Port Sulphur, La., which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Assuming an average eight hours of work over…